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Julian Assange, the wikileaks founder has had rumors circulating about him for some time, regarding his life. After the embassy cut off the internet it was unknown if he was alive, or dead. To counter these rumours, undoubtedly fuelled by the mainstream media, he read out the block hash of Bitcoin Block 447506, which was… (0 comment)

Litecoin was the currency designed to be a ‘lite’ version of Bitcoin, the ‘Silver to Bitcoin gold’. As the Bitcoin price has skyrocketed, Litecoin has stirred a little and it is becoming more recognized. With Bitmain releasing Scrypt mining hardware potentially, and with the Innosilicon offerings, it is likely that Scrypt mining and network security for… (0 comment)

Wyre, a business aimed at utilizing the blockchain and cryptocurrency for international payments was received 5.8 million as a start up. The goal of Wyre is to enable businesses to take advantage of the ease of digital currency for cross-border payments, without actually handling any of this currency themselves. Wyre uses both the Bitcoin Blockchain… (0 comment)

The U.S Federal reserve, which is the most influential bank in the world due to its printing and distribution of the worlds reserve currency, the U.S dollar, have published a research paper on the applications of the blockchain, which is the distributed ledger technology which Bitcoin runs behind. It describes how the blockchain works, and… (0 comment)